‘MEDICAL KIDNAPPING’: COUPLE ACCUSES STATE OF STEALING KIDS AFTER ROUTINE HOSPITAL VISITChildren's health deteriorates in state custody after CPS confiscates without proof of neglect

A young couple was forced to spend the holidays apart from their three children after a routine trip to the hospital resulted in their offspring’s confiscation.When South Dakota couple Molly Bowling and Michael Becker discovered their two-month old, Creedance, had a cut on his tongue that was making eating difficult, they did what any parent would and called their doctor.“He wouldn’t eat. When he was crying we would see the cut on his tongue, so I called his doctor and he said we should take him to the ER. So we went to the ER,” Bowling told KSFY.Once the Sioux Falls couple explained they believed Creedance may have been harmed in daycare, staff members reached out to the non-profit child abuse organization Children’s Voices who advised the hospital to keep the infant overnight.“It all happened so fast,” said Becker, according toMedicalKidnap.com. “Next thing I know, we’re being questioned by CPS and detectives.”CPS then went and inspected the home where the family’s other two children were staying with their grandparents and deemed it suitable, however, authorities declared parents Molly and Michael would have to stay somewhere else.Later, police were reportedly sent to question the parents separately. When Becker felt he was being given the third degree, he asked for an attorney. Molly says, “everything came downhill after that.”“As soon as I asked for a lawyer… they came here and took the other kids out of the house,” Becker said to KSFY, describing how CPS also nabbed Noah, 2, and two-year-old Robin, despite them not being the subject of focus.Becker and Bowling say they’ve tried to ask the state how to get their kids back, but that phone calls to CPS are largely ignored, and that an attempt to ask the agency for proof was met with the response: “We don’t have to prove it.”“It makes me scared to take my kids to the doctor ever again,” Becker admitted. “When we do get them back I’m just going to wrap all of my kids in bubble wrap so nothing ever happens to them, because if you do have to take them to the doctor, this is scary that this could happen.”(full story)